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Within the first 90 minutes of WWDC 2026, Apple did something very unlike Apple. It did not define a new device category on its own, did not reinvent an interaction paradigm on its own, and did not lock the entire supply chain inside its own walls. Instead, it let one of the two largest companies on earth, fold the model of one of the largest AI labs on earth, into its most strategic product. ...

Google changed its search box. That sounds like a tiny product update. The search box is one of the oldest and most ordinary interfaces on the internet. You type a few words, get a page of links, scan some blue titles, dodge some ads, and click whatever looks useful. We have used that pattern for so long that it almost no longer feels like an interface. But I do not think this is just a small UI change. ...